Video game ages don’t mean anything. Ryu is almost 60 based on his video game birthdate but I don’t think the next Street Fighter media push is gonna go with that.

I haven’t seen a Munchlax either! Just an Alpha Snorlax.

I don’t know, those designs in the header look like shit. You could plop Morpeko in there and no one would know the difference.

It’s almost like opinions are subjective and something you hate might be something that someone else loves. Imagine that!

I put the odds of this at or near 0%, but this would be my #1 request if there was some insane way to pull it off.

I’ve never run across one. Something I read says they only drop out of shaking trees and after 5,000 Burmy I just said fuck it and I never even tap them. Same with the shaking minerals. Does it always have to be Geodude?

Exactly. If it turned you into a zombie or had a mortality rate as high as the plague you’d see an extreme minority of anti-vaxxers I would think.

You can have either Wordle or Logan Paul slash the streaming/TikTok douchebag-of-the-day. I’ll take Wordle.

Honestly outside of Gen 1 I’m generally clueless as to when each Pokemon was introduced (except for easy ones like Togepi and Snubbull) and I’ve played every single new game the minute it came out. My memory just sucks for stuff like that. I can tell you relatively which ones were earlier and which ones more recent,…

Madden is a football game. It would make no sense if Madden suddenly became a shooter. You can, however, make a Metroidvania game either with or without a roguelike structure. I prefer a Metroidvania without a roguelike structure, which is essentially what I said in my post. Your Madden comparison, therefore, is a bit…

Yeah, people are just being dramatic and hyperbolic. For the hell of it I just went and YouTubed some PS2 videos and there’s no way you can tell me those games look better or even equivalent. If nothing else the character models are a million times more sharp.

As someone who absolutely hated the old HM bullshit with Fly/Cut/Flash/Surf/Waterfall, I still feel like most or all of that hassle has been eliminated progressively over the last 2-3 generations. I’d have to jump back in to Sw/Sh to really see, but I don’t think many of the complaints about that game were that it was…

Makes no sense in the context, but you do you.

Jesus Christ, can they just make a new Splinter Cell for fuck’s sake?

It’s tough when there’s something you might otherwise love that’s ruined by an adherence to such a shitty structure (Returnal immediately leaps to mind), but I’ve found that ignoring them and choosing the peaceful path of games I won’t hate (or wind up hating) is the best practice.

Lol. Do you hold every company that does business in China to that same standard?

I’m not a big cryer where media is concerned, so I can’t remember the last time a game made me cry. The only one I can remember off the top of my head was at the end of FFX when Yuna and Tidus are running toward each other and he just passes right through her. Oof.

I’m not a big cryer where media is concerned, so I can’t remember the last time a game made me cry. The only one I…

Exactly. And also, there’s no satisfactory answer to any of those questions. At least none more substantive than whatever he’s already said which is basically “We’re working on it.” This meeting existed because it had to. Because it would be weird to have this massive news drop and not address the employees, even if…

But TT Games’ crunch culture is alleged to have started way before The Skywalker Saga. Polygon spoke to six former employees about their experience working under Jon Burton, who co-founded Traveller’s Tales in 1989, seeing the studio through its transition to TT Games in 2005 and subsequent sale to Warner Bros. in…

Best Buy as well as Cost Plus/World Market have them. But also not sure on trade-in practices.